Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013

73.
Collector may be directed to pay interest on excess
compensation.

If the sum, which in
the opinion of the Authority concerned, the Collector ought to have awarded as
compensation is in excess of the sum which the Collector did award as
compensation, the award of the Authority concerned may direct that the
Collector shall pay interest on such excess at the rate of nine per cent. per
annum from the date on which he took possession of the land to the date of
payment of such excess into Authority:

Provided that the
award of the Authority concerned may also direct that where such excess or any
part thereof is paid to the Authority after the date or expiry of a period of
one year from the date on which possession is taken, interest at the rate of
fifteen per cent. Per annum shall be payable from the date of expiry of the
said period of one year on the amount of such excess or part thereof which has
not been paid into Authority before the date of such expiry.